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In its first year of GCSEs, Ark Isaac Newton Academy shot to the top of the league tables, despite being a brand new school in a deprived area. Principal Rachel Macfarlane explains how she, her team, and her students rose to the challenge.

Amy McJennett is Director of English Mastery. In this blog she shares the lessons she has learnt from undertaking the gargantuan task of co-authoring an entire new English curriculum comprising 1400 lessons.